Adekunle Adegbemi

Backend Engineer with 3+ years building secure, scalable financial systems including multi-tenant payment platforms, ledger systems, and settlement engines. Experienced with building REST APIs, asynchronous processing, and production reliability.

Backend Engineer - Kweeva Business

(2025-06)

• Designed and maintained REST APIs supporting a multi-user platform handling 1,000 active users across complex transactional workflows
• Engineered a production-grade double-entry ledger architecture ensuring data consistency and auditability under concurrent financial operations (100+ concurrent transactions supported)
• Developed asynchronous background pipelines using Redis + Celery processing 6 distinct job types (email, reconciliation, notifications, cleanup), reducing request latency from 800ms to 300ms
• Integrated 4 external APIs with webhook handlers for real-time transaction and event processing
• Designed and optimized PostgreSQL schemas for high-write financial workloads, improving query performance by 20% under concurrent load
• Implemented KYC/AML verification using Dojah API for regulatory compliance, maintaining immutable audit trails of all identity verification and transaction monitoring events

Junior Backend Engineer - Social Growth Africa

(2023-02 - 2025-03)

• Designed and deployed REST APIs (Django/DRF) powering payments and merchant workflows for 280+ merchants, processing 1,000+ transactions/month
• Built modular backend services for payments, user management, product catalogues, and merchant workflows with clean separation of concerns
• Integrated 3 third-party payment APIs (Paystack, Twilio, Dojah) with robust error handling and retry logic
• Collaborated cross-functionally to ship 13 production-ready features; participated in debugging and performance optimization

Higher National Diploma - Procurement and Logistics Management - Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin (2021-09)